1977-1984
Advisory Editor, The Family, a Journal of Family Systems Theory and Practice

1977-2009 (Program cut from Fairfax County Budget)
Consultant, Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court
Responsibilities:
Spent one half day each month teaching, training, and reviewing cases with the Court therapists

1972-1974
Consultant, Fairfax County Crossroads Drug Abuse Program
Responsibilities:
Developed curriculum and instruction of nine-month Family Life Education program for parents of adolescent program participants.

1970-1977
Director, Family Therapy, Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court
Responsibilities:
Developed and directed LEAA Grant, a federally funded grant program that evolved from pilot project into permanent county program. Involved administration, supervision and training for all program aspects.

Special Appointments, Honors, Awards

2007-current: Fellow, American Psychotherapy Association

2005-current: Board Certified Diplomat in Clinical Social Work

2000: Strathmore’s Who’s Who

1999-current: Diplomat, American Psychotherapy Association

1997-current: Who’s Who in the South

1981-current: Who’s Who of American Women

1978: Charter Member, American Family Therapy Association

Research Experience

Principle Investigator of research project, “Education as a Vehicle for Therapeutic Change,” Fairfax County Crossroads Drug Abuse Program, 1972-1974.
Research project for thesis, “Birth Order and Juvenile Delinquency: An Attempt at Association,” Catholic University of America, 1976.

Papers (Presented at Professional and Scientific Meetings)

2012 ���Differentiation of Self in the Presence of Chronic Family Symptoms,��� presented to Western Pennsylvania Family Center Clinical Forum Series, Pittsburg, PA, April 2012.

2004 ���Maximizing Therapeutic Results: The Benefit of a Systemic Theoretical Approach,” presented to The American Psychotherapy Association, Chicago, Ill., October 2004.

2003 “Beyond Psychotherapy: Living Your Unique Self,” presented to The American Psychotherapy Association, San Antonio, Texas, August 2003.

1983 “An Evolution of Knowledge: A Focus on Reproduction,” presented at the 20th Annual Georgetown University Family Center Symposium on Family Psychotherapy, Washington, DC, October 1983.

1982 “The Impact of Sexual Process on a Developing Relationship,” presented at the Georgetown University Symposia on Divorce, Washington, DC, January 1982.

1982 ���Multigenerational Transmission of Belief: The Contrast Between Self-Directed and Other-Directed Communication,” presented at the Fifth Annual Conference on Children, Washington, DC, February 1982.

1982 “The Cumulative Effect of Failure to Define a Self in a Life Course,” presented at the 19th Georgetown University Symposium on Psychotherapy, Washington, DC, October 1982.

1981 “Replication, Compensation and Symptom Location,” presented at the 18th Annual Georgetown University Family Center Symposium on Family Psychotherapy, Washington, DC, November 1981.

1980 “Children of Political Families,” presented as a workshop for the Wives Club of the 96th Congress, Washington, DC, December 1980.

1980 “Money as a Reflection of Pseudo-Self,” presented at the 17th Annual Georgetown University Family Center Symposium on Family Psychotherapy, Washington, DC, November 1980.

1980 “Classical Youngest Functioning Characteristics: A Handicap in Bowen Systems Therapy,” presented at the Georgetown University Family Center Symposium on Birth Order, Washington, DC, October 1980.

1980 “The Family and Delinquency,” presented to the Third Annual Conference on Forensic Psychiatry, Rusk State Hospital, Tyler, Texas, September 1980.

1980 ���������Ideas on Generational Connectedness,��� presented to the Third Annual Georgetown University Family Center Conference on Children, Washington, DC, February 1980.

1979 “Family Theory and Therapy: Their Policy Implications for Children,” presented at the Groves Conference, Washington, DC, April 1979.

1979 “The Four Stages of Family Therapy,” presented to the Center for Family Consultation, Chicago, April 1979.

1978 ���The Legal System and Divorce: Avoiding Chaos, Conflict and Loss of Self-Definition,” presented at the Georgetown University Symposium on Divorce, Washington, DC, January 1978.

1978 ���Emotional Scar Tissue: A Foundation for Divorce,” Georgetown University Family Center Conference on Divorce, Washington, DC, January 1978.

1978 “Personal Definition in a Work System: A Focus on Principles,����������������������� presented to the Georgetown University Family Center Conference on Bowen Theory and Organizational Systems, December 1978.

1978 “Factors in Human Functioning,” presented at the 15th Annual Georgetown University Family Center Symposium on Family Psychotherapy, Washington, DC, October 1978.

1978 “The Young Hyperactive Child,” presented at the Georgetown University Family Center Conference on Children, Washington, DC, September 1978.

1978 �����������Defining a Self in One’s Family of Origin,����������� presented at the Ortho meeting, New York, March 1978.

1976 “Seminar on Family Systems Theory and the Court,” presented as an all-day program for Virginia Juvenile Officers District Conference, Norfolk, Va., August 1976.

1976 ���Seminar on Bowen Theory and Therapy in a Court,������� presented as an all-day meeting for the Virginia State Department of Corrections, Richmond, Va., May 1976.